S02.E03: The Rent Is Too Damn High

Dan Kois, June Thomas and Sam Adams duke it out to see who will move on and represent Slate in the Hired Goons divisional finals. Extra! Extra! We start things off in news publication-style by having our contestants identify movies and TV shows from those in-universe newspaper headlines that spin at you (and why do they do that, BTW?). Then we relax with fifteen consecutive rounds of special edition Monopoly where tokens, properties and rules give hints to which pop culture edition of Monopoly we're playing. Tears are shed! Records are broken! Riddles are given! It's all happening right now.

NOTES

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🐞 Do you know there's debate over how quickly you need to say "Betelgeuse" in succession in order to summon him?

🥤 Diet Coke is brown coin water.

🚀 Newspapers in Battlestar Galactica have clipped edges because of course they do. As creator Ronald Moore explained, "These people just hate right angles."

🦎 The UNGCC is about as effective at protecting the world from kaiju as the UN is at everything else.

🌎 Dan, June and Sam all work at Slate.

🐦 Follow Sam Adams on Twitter

📕 Dan's book How To Be A Family

👫 Listen to Dan's parenting podcast Mom and Dad Are Fighting

💼 Listen to June on Slate's Working podcast